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Lukas Gage shouldn’t view his Las Vegas wedding as the time he really screwed up. He should view it as the time he got a personal Shania Twain concert.Gage has offered his apologies to Twain for “wasting her time” when she serenaded the “Road House” actor and celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton — who was Gage’s better half ... briefly. In an appearance this week on Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live,” Gage offered up his apology to Twain — saying she’d wasted her time because his marriage to Appleton lasted less…

There is perhaps no story that better explains where the movie industry is at in 2024 than all the Road House drama. In short, the film’s director, Doug Liman, was so outraged about MGM/ Amazon’s decision to drop the movie directly on streaming that he boycotted the SXSW premiere and released an open letter unleashing his anger. I thought it was a bit dramatic when it happened back in February, but then I saw Road House at a critics screening earlier this week, and I’m now overwhelmed by so many thoughts.Road House is a…

Described as "first-of-its-kind legislation," the act seeks to protect artists against artificial intelligence misuses Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed the ELVIS Act into law on Thursday in an effort to protect musicians from unauthorized artificial intelligence deep fakes and voice clones. The bill, short for the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act, updates the state’s Protection of Personal Rights law (which protects an individual’s “name, photograph, or likeness”), to include…

Uncertainty suddenly surrounds one of Major League Baseball’s biggest stars, with Shohei Ohtani mired in recent days in a growing scandal linked to a federal investigation into illegal sports gambling.The public so far has only a fragmented picture of the case. But more facts could emerge in coming days and weeks, legal experts said, as federal prosecutors try to make sense of competing claims about Ohtani’s money being used to pay down gambling debts with a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. One key question —…

This week we saw the first Alien: Romulus trailer and the new film from director Fede Alverez looks to be exactly what fans of the original sci-fi horror classic are hoping for. While the movie is set after the original Alien, before Aliens, the director promises the new movie won’t mess with the franchise, as he says he took great care to make sure the new movie didn't upset the series.Alien and Aliens are two of the best science fiction movies of all time, and that means there are a lot of fans who are both excited and…

When Showgirls first came out in 1995, critics and audiences brutally panned the dance film. But while the NC-17 movie was known for having famous actors like Elizabeth Berkley and Kyle MacLachlan, its campy qualities and hidden message made it a hit with the LGBTQ+ community. 28 years later since the film's release, a choked-up Berkley decided to thank the LGBTQ+ community for turning her negatively-reviewed movie into a cult classic.We can’t deny when watching Showgirls that there are many things about the film that we…

After working nonstop on TV sets for almost all of 2022, unit production manager Matt Baker decided to take the rest of the year off. He looked forward to relaxing, playing golf and spending quality time with his wife and daughter. He expected to return to work after the holidays.Things did not go as planned. Baker has not been employed on a film or TV set since October 2022.“I was ... pretty keenly aware that we were going through a change in the industry, and there was going to be some consolidation, and I think the…

In the history of movies, there are some pretty horrendous names for some good films, but some hugely successful films were able to avoid such disaster. Back to the Future, and Beetlejuice were both nearly victimized by their respective studios who strongly suggested really bad movie titles. There’s a really good 1954 comedy film starring Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon titled Phffft!. The sad part is, the name likely prevents it from being a movie that today’s audiences would want to check out, despite the fact that the…

Image: Sony, LionsgateThe eternal question—“Who you gonna call?”—has come back around thanks to Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Ray Parker Jr.’s 1984 anthem has us thinking about the pop songs so prominently featured in some of our favorite sci-fi, animated, and superhero movies, they’ve become just as well-known as the movies they’re featured in. Sometimes, soundtrack cuts become even more popular than the theme songs themselves—like with The Lost Boys’ sax-man jam “I Still Believe” overshadowing “Cry Little Sister (Theme…

A new batch of live-action movies is on the horizon. Many of these campy titles revealed in recent memory have already scarred the online community. Despite their yet-to-release status, these titles have taken flak way before some of their official previews were even rolled out. However, some exceptions have lightened the mood. Margot Robbie's direct attachment to The Sims movie has awakened a mood of pleasant surprise among netizens whom her association with Barbie won over. The Sims and Teen Titans are two of…